You may have heard that Reichen – the former Amazing Racer turned “activist” turned Lance Bass’ butt-buddy – has just released a book, Here’s What We’ll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out, and the US Air Force.
As is requisite for any celebrity (however pseudo) memoir, there’s a painful tale that Reichen’s never before disclosed.
Reichen’s comes in the form of a hazing-related sexual assault while at the Air Force academy. It seems that poor Reichen was snatched from his bed, blind folded and taken to a room where he was forced to do naked push-ups…into another cadets mouth! Speaking with ABC News, Reichen says, “I think it’s the first time that I’ve said that that happened… I’ve been ashamed of it.”
In preparation for our Totally Frightful Interview with Reichen (which will be posted later this week), we sat down to read said book and, yes, we read the scene in which he gets his wee-wee sucked. Reichen writes:
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I was so sexually aroused, yet feeling so violated, that I didn’t know what to do. I struggled to move away from them but they held me tighter. The motjon of getting away felt so good between my lefs that I kept moving up and down. It only took me about two minutes to come, and when I did, the guy in front of me had turned his body somewhat so that my face was on his chest. I must have given him a hickey on his chest as I sucked on his skin while I came.
Not to discredit Reichen’s psychic trauma, it reads more like erotic fiction than emotional confession.
Despite the sensual undertones in the book, we’re sure the entire experience sucked…
jack e. jett
i am looking forward to reading reichen’s book.
is it true that the book comes with a free bottle of poppers?
in all seriousness, i had the chance to work with reichen and i can honestly say that he is a very spriritualy
centered person.
jack jett
KB
I just don’t understand the facination with him or the x-singer.
Really, what has he done for the gay and lesbian community? They get a little press once on T.V. He appear shirtless on magazine covers..he becomes a product of our sexual lust for the male body and some of you call him an activist and then he wins awards along with his use to be singer BF. It does make for a fun story. But, come on.. if he really wants to win my support he needs to channel his inner Jane Fonda and get out and use the press to get into someones face about our rights!
If this is the most interesting part of his book or if this is the only part your interested in talking about, that’s either really sad on your part and/or his?
ggreen
I had a few experiences with the R man too. Reichen is “spiritually centered†self-centered that is. Reichen is completely oblivious to anything and everyone that is not in his personal universe. People are tools or stepping-stones to this guy. Just as his book hopefully will lead to some other TV gig or movie cameo. Not the brightest bulb on the tree, he usually needs some kind of “management†(pimp) a BF, his mother or Davis Forrest (Jeff Strykers agent). He never gives anything for free. I’m sure his chastity belt is coin operated and Lance is feeding it all the time. Coins in one end and viagra in the other. Yes boys the pin up dream date is a big ol bottom pretending to be a top. For a fee of course.
Leland
“Reichen Sexually Assaulted” “Moon Made of Cheese” “JFK Still Alive in Secret South American Clinic—Shares Room with Elvis.”
This just doesn’t pass the “smell test.” One can also see articles referring to Reichen as an “actor,” a “movie star,” and “THE winner of “The Amazing Race” (even ABC repeats that shameless spin from his media packet). Anyone who’s seen him “act” or his “movies” or “The Amazing Race,” knows none of that is true either. On the other hand, I don’t know if, as he imagines at the end of his book, he never found his hat after throwing it in the air at his Academy graduation because God caught it. But there’s his claim, refuted on the Net by his own mother, that Nancy Reagan attended his wedding to that guy he did not win “The Amazing Race” with.
Reichen has been a media subject for soon going on four years. In print, on the Net, textually and in audio form, and on television. He’s had his own Website for a couple of years and a myspace page. He’s done three interviews with the Advocate, one with Genre, one with Instinct, a long one with DNA, a long one with DC gay paper MetroWeekly, and countless other gay rags. He’s ALWAYS talked about attending the Air Force Academy, has often mentioned a woman officer apparently trying to out him when he was stationed in LA, and there was NEVER the slightest hint about this alleged incident.
True, other celebrities and public figures, usually but not always women, have first discussed such things well into their careers, and given the same answer when asked why: they were/he was “ashamed.” The acute difference here is that, again, the terrible results of homophobia in the military have been Reichen’s worthy subject for a long time.
I don’t know if he was assaulted. I don’t know if he wasn’t assaulted. I only know that if it did happen he could have used the story to illustrate the hell of DADT in the extensive 2003 interview that accompanied his first Advocate cover (with Chip). He could have spoken of it in the 2005 interview that accompanied his second Advocate cover, their “sex issue.” Or in any of the other interviews in other places before and since. He could have talked about it on his defunct fishbowl.com radio show. He could have talked about it on his defunct QTV program.
I only know that what has changed is that he has a book to sell. With one footnote: if it did happen, we can probably be confidant Nancy Reagan wasn’t there either—unless, of course, his next revelation is that it was a Judith Leiber bag.
DBB
OH god, can’t we just let him and his BF just go away…WTF have they done besides come out. I would much rather hear about some one making a difference then any more about these two. Haven’t they gone over 15 minutes of fame yet!!!
JP
You have to give Reichen credit for one thing: he’s stretched his 15 minutes out longer than anyone whose last name isn’t Hilton [though there are MANY other similarities as well]. Luved his drinking a worm milk shake on “Fear Factor.” What could be next? Fellow Fear Factorette Omarosa again made the world happy by letting her breast augmentation surgery be documented by the crew of Discovery Channel’s new show. But the difference between Reichen on the cover of his book and on the back already illustrates his own version of “Plastic Surgery Before and After.†But, speaking of stretching, maybe they’ll do a sequel and we can finally see what’s been hiding under the mysterious stuffing in his Calvins in calendars 1 & 2.
Tagg
OMG! I thought your description and “excerpt” was a satire someone had made up, but IT’S ACTUALLY WHAT REICHEN WROTE! Because he wasn’t that explicit on ABC, now the world is imagining that he was sodomized or forced to go down on someone else–NOT be forced to let someone BLOW HIM! Let the laughing out of town commence NOW!
zee
From the author’s note to Here’s What We’ll Say by Air Force Academy grad/ Amazing Race 4 co-winner, ‘Reichen’* Lehmkuhl:
“Some of the events of this books that are portrayed as having happened to me actually happened to others. I integrated their stories into my own to ensure that their stories were told […] This story, although based on true events, should not be considered a memoir or an accurate account of events, or a true story.”
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